Increasing The Volume Of A Sample

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Increasing The Volume Of A Sample

By Siver Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:13 am
Is there any way to increase the volume of a sample if the level is already at 100? Sometimes I'll add a drum loop but the level will be a lot softer than everything else? I know I could lower the volume of everything else, but then it would be a lot quieter when I tracked the beat.

By Mike Feedback Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:37 am
try trim->edit->normalize.
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Re: Increasing The Volume Of A Sample

By Upright Mon Mar 05, 2007 1:16 pm
Siver wrote:Is there any way to increase the volume of a sample if the level is already at 100? Sometimes I'll add a drum loop but the level will be a lot softer than everything else? I know I could lower the volume of everything else, but then it would be a lot quieter when I tracked the beat.


Try using the 8 outputs into a mixer and then increasing the volume of the channel on the mixer. or turn everything down like you said then increase/normalize your final mix once you have recorded everything.

By Ajax Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:37 pm
If you want to change the volume of a track relative to the other tracks, then turn all the other tracks down.. if you want to change the volume of a particular sample, use normalize.




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By tag Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:44 pm
or

effect>compressor
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Re: Increasing The Volume Of A Sample

By Lampdog Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:12 pm
episode wrote:
x2k wrote:Or turndown everything else a little bit ;)


Some people call that subtractive gain.

Re: Increasing The Volume Of A Sample

By barznbeats Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:04 pm
Lampdog wrote:
episode wrote:
x2k wrote:Or turndown everything else a little bit ;)


Some people call that subtractive gain.



c-c-c-c-cosiggnnnnn...!

lol

But for real, it's better to do it that way because you WILL get distortion out of the mpc if you start turning things up.

Turn everything else down and compress in your DAW.

By Mike Feedback Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:45 pm
sometimes i get the feeling that people don't really read peoples questions...

Siver wrote:I know I could lower the volume of everything else, but then it would be a lot quieter when I tracked the beat.


he was looking for a way to increase a sound WITHOUT lowering the other levels, and like 5 people came in sayin to lower the levels of everything else.

By barznbeats Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:16 pm
Mike Feedback wrote:sometimes i get the feeling that people don't really read peoples questions...

Siver wrote:I know I could lower the volume of everything else, but then it would be a lot quieter when I tracked the beat.


he was looking for a way to increase a sound WITHOUT lowering the other levels, and like 5 people came in sayin to lower the levels of everything else.


Thats why I said to compress in his daw afterwards.
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By Lampdog Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:33 pm
Mike Feedback wrote:sometimes i get the feeling that people don't really read peoples questions...

he was looking for a way to increase a sound WITHOUT lowering the other levels, and like 5 people came in sayin to lower the levels of everything else.


And here you come, adding no alternative or options for him to try and run with?!?

By barznbeats Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:59 pm
lol...

word.

By jbplaya Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:32 am
he was looking for a way to increase a sound WITHOUT lowering the other levels, and like 5 people came in sayin to lower the levels of everything else.


LOL! I thought I was the only one that noticed that! I wish Akai would have made a way for the MP to resample at a higher gain you can customize, but that's just wishful thinking and would make too much sense. Sometimes my CD burner loads up samples mad quiet, so i have to go back through the computer and sample them at a higher gain. That's just what i do.

By Mike Feedback Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:49 am
Lampdog wrote:
Mike Feedback wrote:sometimes i get the feeling that people don't really read peoples questions...

he was looking for a way to increase a sound WITHOUT lowering the other levels, and like 5 people came in sayin to lower the levels of everything else.


And here you come, adding no alternative or options for him to try and run with?!?


hey wiseguy, check the first reply in this post. and thanks for proving my point once again.
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